{"id":2900,"date":"2012-04-11T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2012-04-11T07:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T15:00:32","slug":"data-centers-companies-losing-battle-in-achieving-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/data-centers-companies-losing-battle-in-achieving-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Centers: Companies Losing Battle In Achieving Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloud Computing is gradually chipping away at on-premise infrastructure. \u00a0 Slowly both small and large businesses are moving towards the cloud. \u00a0 Small and medium sized businesses are finding it easy to adopt applications which they never were able to afford as on-premise applications. \u00a0And big companies are gradually piloting and \u00a0experimenting with moving some of their data in the cloud to become more efficient and flexible in their operations. \u00a0At this rate, enough chips and chinks will\u00a0eventually\u00a0be taken away from on-premise infrastructure that cloud computing will be considered the norm, rather than an exception.<\/p>\n

Another data point was recently published by IBM<\/a> and IDC recently which adds more evidence to the trend that companies’ in-house efforts to maintain data centers is struggling. \u00a0On-premise data centers aren’t keeping up with the level of efficiencies that cloud vendors are able to achieve. \u00a0The main difference, of course is focus. \u00a0Cloud vendors are in the data center business, while managing a data center is not a core competency for most other businesses. \u00a0IBM found that 79 percent of companies that maintain their own data centers felt that they are unable to keep current with the changes in technology (62 percent are running their operations at a mildly efficient level while 17 percent lack even basic efficiencies) .<\/p>\n

The report found that of the 21 percent of companies that have built highly efficient data centers, more than 50 percent are able to allocate more of their IT budget on new projects and innovation. \u00a0Many of the efficiencies from these companies are possible using the latest virtualization and storage provisioning technologies.<\/p>\n

For the 79 percent of companies that are falling behind in technology, the IBM report suggests the following course of action for how those companies could revamp their data centers:<\/p>\n